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OPEC12 peak 2016-2018
Posted on September 12, 2024 | No CommentsFig 1: OPEC12 crude production peaked 2015-2018 Crude oil in the EIA statistics includes condensate (C&C). The data are around 2.2 mb/d higher than the crude only published in OPEC’s […] -
Peak oil update 2023 – part 1 NGLs
Posted on June 24, 2024 | No CommentsThe 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy has been published on 20 June 2024 by the Energy Institute (previously by BP) with data up to 2023. https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review Oil production in […] -
ME oil supply situation as Gaza war brings world into unknown territory (part 1)
Posted on October 25, 2023 | No CommentsME-oil-supplies-as-Gaza-war-The Hamas attack on Israel on 7 Oct 2023 was reminiscent of the 1973 Yom Kippur war which triggered the 1st oil crisis (see Appendix) after OPEC imposed an oil […] -
Uncertainties following the Abqaiq attack have shrunk the world’s safe oil reserves by around half (part 1)
Posted on October 16, 2019 | No CommentsThe world has returned to business as usual after the Saudis assured oil markets that production will be back soon and as oil prices have returned to pre-attack levels and […] -
Peak oil in Asia: where will the oil come from for the Asian Century?
Posted on September 10, 2019 | No CommentsAsian oil production peaked above 8 mb/d for the period between 2008 and 2016 (with spikes in 2010 and 2015). The 2015 peak was mainly caused by peak oil in […] -
Persian Gulf oil export peak after tanker attacks?
Posted on June 21, 2019 | No CommentsTankers holed and burning in the Gulf of Oman are not a good sign for future oil exports from the Persian Gulf. Fig 1: Norway’s Front Altair burning with 75,000 […] -
Iran Update
Posted on September 4, 2018 | No CommentsSeptember 2018 5/9/2018 4 scenarios by RBC Capital Markets (1) Waiting Game Oil price neutral. Iran honors its commitments under the nuclear deal attempting to wait out the Trump administration. […] -
Fireworks calendar 2015
Posted on December 30, 2015 | No CommentsJanuary Bush fires in Adelaide, Australia February Explosion in Kobani, Syria March Great Prophet 9 war games in Straits of Hormuz April Hanging tracks blasted over culvert washout on substandard […] -
Iran’s 2nd and last oil peak
Posted on August 7, 2012 | No Comments“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in Tehran that Iran has become addicted to selling crude oil and the time has come that the country voluntarily shut down some […] -
Iran playing war games, but not in video arcades
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsAs the world enters year 8 of peak oil with wafer thin spare capacity to offset any supply disruptions, war games around the heart of the Middle East oil supply […]